There is a lot of evidence for anchoring biases and their effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect The reason I was nervous is...
As an editor (something I do have expertise in), I should probably make some comments, but I feel very nervous about doing so. I can see the...
Just posting for those not on X: [MEDIA] [ATTACH] Link to open letter: [MEDIA]
Here's a press release about the trial from November 2023, which provides a little more info:...
One of the things that really annoys me about papers like this (and this entire area) is the rewriting of biology and biological language that is...
Just to confirm, the Fryer et al. paper does outline in much more detail what the intervention involved, by way of describing the training of the...
@Hutan It looks like they've used the upper portion of the scale - which should be graded 1-7. Table 9.2 has a typo - saying that it scores 0 to...
£1.5million spent on this (https://www.dev.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/15/136/07) This is the protocol paper:...
In the appendix (pdf link: https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00700-1/attachment/92cea412-1aa4-4f3b-82d5-0b3e51d62615/mmc1.pdf),...
This makes me so cross! What I'd like them to have done is to maybe do a trial where they use their "intervention" as the placebo control, and...
It found a *between-group* difference of 1.82. The median scores at baseline in both groups were 15 - but also need to consider that entry...
Is there any update? It all went very quiet after this. Were the family silenced?
This page provides a bit more info: https://ctmuhb.nhs.wales/services/primary-fatigue-service/more-about-the-service/ This service is only...
If it is the same one, then they don't seem to be set up for patients as severe as Carla or Millie, or am I missing something? The thread for...
In this post on X by Pierre, Carla's father, he mentions a specialist inpatient unit for ME in Leeds. [MEDIA] It's not this one, is it?...
Thanks. I will if I do. And in case anyone can't see the whole thread, here it is (click thumbnail): [ATTACH]
Supplement 2 in the paper above is actually really interesting. It gives a fairly full description of what PRT is (in eAppendix 2). But first,...
"Contributors: This study was conceived and designed by Professor Esther Crawley and AB [Amberly Bridgen]." Authorship is, and should be, about...
This seems to be an offshoot of the same study @dx-revision-watch.77 mentioned over here:...
Doesn't stop them including identified severe patients in FITNET though, does it? Also, a lot of studies are done pre-hoc/post-hoc. Studies that...
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